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re: Anyone ever see coral snakes?
Posted on 10/19/20 at 4:33 pm to Cool Hand Luke
Posted on 10/19/20 at 4:33 pm to Cool Hand Luke
44 years old spend a ton of days in the woods either deer hunting spring Turkey hunting or food plot summer work at the deer lease. Have only seen 2-3 that I can even recall and normally don’t see many venomous snakes in any given year.
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Posted on 10/19/20 at 5:31 pm to Cool Hand Luke
We killed one in our backyard here in The Woodlands.
Posted on 10/19/20 at 6:19 pm to BiggerBear
So this is the Red and Yellow, kill a fellow
King Snake Red and Black, friend of Jack
Posted on 10/19/20 at 6:34 pm to RemyLeBeau
There was a town in Louisiana that had a massive coral snake issue years ago. IIRC it was somewhere near Laplace. People were seeing them frequently all over town and they were concerned about the lack of anti venom.
Seems like this was 10-15 years ago but my Google search found nothing. It was on the local news here in BR.
Seems like this was 10-15 years ago but my Google search found nothing. It was on the local news here in BR.
Posted on 10/19/20 at 6:49 pm to D500MAG
quote:
google is absolutely wrong, there are no poisonous snakes in Louisiana
They're all venomous.
Posted on 10/19/20 at 7:29 pm to ccard257
Seen one in Washington parish in my 36 years. Year 2000,, round abouts
Posted on 10/19/20 at 8:23 pm to Cool Hand Luke
I have seen one in my life....SW Mississippi
Posted on 10/19/20 at 8:27 pm to Cool Hand Luke
Seen plenty of moccasins and copperheads, along with a handful of rattlers, but never a coral.
Posted on 10/20/20 at 9:25 am to Cool Hand Luke
I've seen a couple in my much younger days canoeing with my dad. All I can remember about the place we used to go was it was a sandy creek. No idea where it was 
Posted on 10/20/20 at 10:25 am to Cool Hand Luke
Venomous not poisonous
I found one camping at money hill in 1974, Thought it was a scarlet king snake(I was 9)
Kept it for about 10 -12 days me and several neighborhood kids handled it. It was very docile.
Then I went to show it to an uncle and he damn near had a heart attack when he saw it??
I’ve seen a couple very rare....very shy
I found one camping at money hill in 1974, Thought it was a scarlet king snake(I was 9)
Kept it for about 10 -12 days me and several neighborhood kids handled it. It was very docile.
Then I went to show it to an uncle and he damn near had a heart attack when he saw it??
I’ve seen a couple very rare....very shy
Posted on 10/20/20 at 10:26 am to fallguy_1978
quote:
There was a town in Louisiana that had a massive coral snake issue years ago. IIRC it was somewhere near Laplace. People were seeing them frequently all over town and they were concerned about the lack of anti venom.
Seems like this was 10-15 years ago but my Google search found nothing. It was on the local news here in BR.
Dequincy
Posted on 10/21/20 at 11:34 am to Cool Hand Luke
Lots of snake collecting, fishing and hunting my first 19 years in Louisiana and never saw one.
Living most of my 73 years in the Florida Panhandle I've seen less than ten. Three that were dead already, somebody killed one, some road kills and one my crazy german shepherd killed without getting bitten.
Watching a couple of bee hives I had in the woods next to my yard saw a couple of coral snakes crawl out of the pine straw for a few feet and then disappear just as fast. With that observation I believe corals are more common that you may think, just very secretive.
The pool, my 18X36 pit trap, had cycled off and I spotted a snake hanging over the flap of the skimmer while my wife and a carpenter stood unaware over it discussing our house addition. The wife would have s*#t if she would have known. When they left the area my son and I caught and released it in the woods. It was a beautiful coral and can't remember why I didn't take a pic. Pre-cell phone camera days.
Another, while laying on an exam table in my doctor's office, the exam room door was open and I saw a young man that I knew from work. He was cued up in a row of chairs in the hall. We started talking and he said he had been bitten by a coral snake. He had the snake in a jar, I checked it out and sure enough it was a coral. When the doctor came into the exam room I told the doctor that I could wait and to check out the young man. Told doctor I was familiar with snakes a that was definitely a coral snake. Ride in a helicopter to Pensacola and the young man survived without issues.
The most memorable was in 1967 visiting Blue Springs State Park after it had just been purchased by the state. Me and my parents walked a trail back to the spring head (no board walk built yet) and there was a group of people watching some suba divers coming up from the spring cave. One women in the group loudly exclaimed "I SMELL A SNAKE"! Sure enough I spotted a coral snake in some knee high weeds near the group. I found a reliable stick and pinned the coral's head. Then it happened. There were TWO freaking coral snakes around my stick! When I looked a little more closely I realized that that snake had curled it's tail in such a way as to appear it had another head. I caught the snake and released it in a palmetto thicket a safe distance from the spring. I remembered reading about coral snakes curling their tails to look like another head but didn't think much about it every fooling anyone. But it did fool me for a few seconds.
Living most of my 73 years in the Florida Panhandle I've seen less than ten. Three that were dead already, somebody killed one, some road kills and one my crazy german shepherd killed without getting bitten.
Watching a couple of bee hives I had in the woods next to my yard saw a couple of coral snakes crawl out of the pine straw for a few feet and then disappear just as fast. With that observation I believe corals are more common that you may think, just very secretive.
The pool, my 18X36 pit trap, had cycled off and I spotted a snake hanging over the flap of the skimmer while my wife and a carpenter stood unaware over it discussing our house addition. The wife would have s*#t if she would have known. When they left the area my son and I caught and released it in the woods. It was a beautiful coral and can't remember why I didn't take a pic. Pre-cell phone camera days.
Another, while laying on an exam table in my doctor's office, the exam room door was open and I saw a young man that I knew from work. He was cued up in a row of chairs in the hall. We started talking and he said he had been bitten by a coral snake. He had the snake in a jar, I checked it out and sure enough it was a coral. When the doctor came into the exam room I told the doctor that I could wait and to check out the young man. Told doctor I was familiar with snakes a that was definitely a coral snake. Ride in a helicopter to Pensacola and the young man survived without issues.
The most memorable was in 1967 visiting Blue Springs State Park after it had just been purchased by the state. Me and my parents walked a trail back to the spring head (no board walk built yet) and there was a group of people watching some suba divers coming up from the spring cave. One women in the group loudly exclaimed "I SMELL A SNAKE"! Sure enough I spotted a coral snake in some knee high weeds near the group. I found a reliable stick and pinned the coral's head. Then it happened. There were TWO freaking coral snakes around my stick! When I looked a little more closely I realized that that snake had curled it's tail in such a way as to appear it had another head. I caught the snake and released it in a palmetto thicket a safe distance from the spring. I remembered reading about coral snakes curling their tails to look like another head but didn't think much about it every fooling anyone. But it did fool me for a few seconds.
Posted on 10/21/20 at 1:30 pm to FrenchJoe
Joe - If that spring is the Blue Grotto, I've scuba dived in that cave.
Posted on 10/21/20 at 1:58 pm to Cool Hand Luke
Pretty sure we had them in Vidalia. My parents showed me a picture of one, and told me to steer clear if I ever saw one. We had rattle snakes in that yard so often, we looked for them any time we were out playing in the yard.
Posted on 10/21/20 at 2:21 pm to ccard257
I've never seen one in the wild, but a friend of ours in Schertz found this one in the neighborhood kids park. This was early in the morning.
Edit: She told me it was early; I guess noon is early to some.
Edit: She told me it was early; I guess noon is early to some.
This post was edited on 10/21/20 at 4:59 pm
Posted on 10/21/20 at 6:51 pm to Nawlens Gator
Hey Nawlens Gator- It's now Blue Springss State Park just west of Orange City which is 7 miles south of Deland, Fl.
Posted on 10/21/20 at 8:02 pm to FrenchJoe
Maybe one.
It was a few years ago by the garden in my back yard, he didn't stay still long enough to see for sure which colors touched, and I didn't chase him to find out. (... could have been a she).
Those colors definitely catch your attention !!!
It was a few years ago by the garden in my back yard, he didn't stay still long enough to see for sure which colors touched, and I didn't chase him to find out. (... could have been a she).
Those colors definitely catch your attention !!!
Posted on 10/22/20 at 9:24 am to Cool Hand Luke
I have only seen one in my 52 years. A couple of years ago in Kisatchie.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 10:06 am to chinese58
quote:They are not supposed to range there. Too far East for the Tx Coral, and the eastern isn't shown there either.
Pretty sure we had them in Vidalia
Posted on 10/22/20 at 6:20 pm to AlxTgr
My brother killed one few years ago in his front yard. He lives in Lincoln parish at Mitchams peach orchard road and 146. It was curled up in his flower beds in pine straw.
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